The sharp blade piercing through Su Mu’s shoulders completely provoked Su Mu’s hidden violence. Just now, Su Mu planned to catch one of them live in order to find the master behind the scenes.

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But now he just wanted to tear up all the people in front of him. In the dark forest, the man in black who stabbed Su Mu once again thrust his blade towards Su Mu’s heart. But this time no god blessed him.

Su Mu stretched out his right hand like lightning and directly grasped the blade, pulling it towards him. The man in black lost his center of gravity, falling forward only to feel a pain in his neck, and then forever departing from this world.

Su Mu carelessly threw away the dead man in black, and turned his focus on his next target.

At that moment, even if he was a professional assassin who had experienced many battles, the man in black felt chills running down his back, and he subconsciously paused. And it was in that instant his head fell to the ground.

When Yun Feiyu arrived, having rowed the boat over, he saw Su Mu standing in a pile of corpses covered in blood, his bloodthirsty eyes causing people to feel as if they have fallen into hell.

Su Mu forced himself to restrain the surging murderous intent inside his body, trembling slightly, and stood motionless.

“Your High……” Yun Feiyu looked at Su Mu not far away, but the instant he opened his mouth he felt a chill on his neck.

Su Mu appeared in front of Yun Feiyu in the blink of an eye, hands that tremored slightly held his neck in a tight grip.

“You Highness……” Yun Feiyu couldn’t breathe well and called out with difficulty.

Su Mu’s hands were tremoring more and more severely, and there was an obvious struggle in his eyes. Suddenly, with a violent palm he pushed Yun Feiyu away, instantly disappearing into the forest.

After a while, loud noises continued to come from the depths of the forest, and gradually the noise became farther and farther away. When Yun Feiyu arrived, he only saw a mess, half of the mountain was destroyed by Su Mu.

Yun Feiyu, who was standing a distance away, felt his heart beat rapidly. He only knew that the Crown Prince was very powerful. He could not be stopped by even thousands of troops and battle horses, but he never expected the Crown Prince to be this powerful. He frowned and thought, maybe even the city wall wouldn’t be able to stand up against such a powerful attack.

Su Mu lay curled up on the ground, and the memories he suppressed, like the flood of a bursting dam, slammed into Su Mu’s mind with a splitting headache.

The six-year-old child had already started to remember things, but the memories in Su Mochi’s mind was not at all beautiful.

His mother was just a low-born court lady. In order to gain prosperity and wealth she continuously climbed up using any means necessary. And when she was mistreated by the Emperor or other court concubines, she vented it out on him and the court ladies and eunuchs.

He was just an unfavored prince. When he had no protection from even his own mother, even a court lady dared to pour footwash water on him.

When Su Mochi was nine years old, his mother died from palace intrigue within the harem, and he was adopted by a concubine who had a grudge against his mother.

After that, Su Mochi lived a life that was worse than pigs and dogs. Beating and scolding was just commonplace. He had slept in the snow, kneeled over pegboards, and even ate with the dogs.

In addition to fighting for favor, women in the harem most often do when they were extremely bored was to torture people in different ways that won’t even leave any visible wounds.

When Su Mochi was thirteen years old, a graceful middle-aged man came to the palace, who claimed to be called Changsheng Sanren (TN: literally long-lived wanderer) and was regarded as a guest of honor by the Emperor.

After seeing Su Mochi by accident, Changsheng Sanren immediately showed his affection for him.

Su Mochi had lived a life of looking at and analyzing people’s expressions and emotions since he was a child, and naturally understood that Changsheng Sanren was not a good person, so he made detours whenever he saw him.

However, Changsheng Sanren had powerful martial arts and Su Mochi could not avoid him. But Changsheng Sanren did not do anything against him, and coupled with the temptation of power, Su Mochi became Changsheng’s disciple.

In the two years since he became the apprentice of Changsheng, Su Mochi had been the happiest in his life.

He even fell in love with a little court lady who took good care of him. But after this incident was known by Changsheng, the ferocious beast finally revealed his claws.

It turned out that Su Mochi’s physique was the rare Yin physique which was an exceptional lu ding (TN: refer to people who are used by male cultivators, both in wuxia and xianxia stories, to increase their martial prowess through taking the Yin to strengthen the Yang). Changsheng killed the court lady and imprisoned Su Mochi.

Su Mochi once again led a hellish life. One year later, Su Mochi finally found a chance to kill Changsheng and seized all his martial arts skills.

After that, Su Mochi became a complete demon, and could no longer do without men.

The reason why he abused men was because he wasn’t attracted to men at all, and he especially hated the men who he had no choice but to sleep with, particularly since he was on the receiving end of it. From beginning to end, he only liked that little palace lady.

This time the memories of the two different souls were finally completely fused together.

Su Mu clearly felt how desperate and sorrowful Su Mochi was after learning about Qingxue’s death, and he couldn’t help calling out the name.

“Qingxue……”

When Yun Feiyu arrived, he saw Su Mochi curled up weakly on the ground, whispering a name he hadn’t heard before. It invoked pity and distress.

“Qingxue……” Su Mochi curled up on the ground in pain, as if he had fallen into a nightmare that he could not get rid of.

Yun Feiyu walked over with a complicated expression.

Suddenly, Su Mu suddenly opened his eyes and shouted: “Get away!”

A cold light flashed in Yun Feiyu’s eyes.

Su Mu propped up his body and sat up, looking at Yun Feiyu not far away, and said, “I can’t control my strength, leave quickly.”

Yun Feiyu was surprised. He had seen Su Mochi who was fierce and violent, he had seen Su Mochi who killed people without blinking, and he had seen Su Mochi who tortured others for fun. But he had never seen Su Mochi having consideration for others like this.

For a while, he felt the novelty and humor.

“Your Highness, let’s go back to the palace.”

“Peng” the fist sized rock was smashed into pieces in Su Mu’s hand and he said angrily: “I don’t need your care, leave quickly.”

The repressed killing intent suddenly turned into sexual desire, and Su Mu secretly cursed at what kind of freaking body he was stuck with, turning into this once a man was in sight.

And what Su Mu thought had been extremely angry words, but in Yun Feiyu’s ears actually had no offensive power. Instead it had a trace of temptation, tempting him to walk over slowly.

The scent of Yun Feiyu gradually occupied Su Mu’s senses. He desperately suppressed the urge to throw the other down onto the floor: “Yun Feiyu, are you looking for death! Go away!”

“Your Highness, are you uncomfortable?” Yun Feiyu looked at him deeply.

Su Mu suddenly snapped up his head and pushed him away, turning around he quickly flew passed the treetops and disappeared into the night.

Yun Feiyu looked deeply at the direction where Su Mu disappeared.

Most of the people in the Crown Prince’s Palace were already asleep, so when Su Mu entered he didn’t alarm anyone.

Huang Xuan, who was sleeping, suddenly sat up, a strong smell of blood reaching him from the darkness. Huang Xuan was about to get up but was suddenly thrown back onto the bed.

“Your Highness, are you injured?” Huang Xuan asked in shock.

Huang Xuan, who was thinking of getting up, was pressed back down by Su Mu. He said: “Small injuries, it’s not a problem.”

After saying so, the room sounded with all kinds of noises that would cause one to blush deeply.

Early the next morning, Su Mu arrived at the morning assembly with a strip of cloth tied to his shoulder.

Everyone was shocked into gasps.

The Crown Prince was injured! The Crown Prince was actually injured! The Crown Prince can be injured too?!

Everyone was shocked. Obviously, the officials were not surprised by the assassination against Su Mu. From the shock of hearing the news of the assassination of the Crown Prince for the first time, to being accustomed to the whole matter after several times happening.

The craziest time was when the Crown Prince encountered more than a dozen waves of assassins a day, but that was all two years ago. In the end, none of the assassins made it back alive. Only then did the assassinations lessened.

They haven’t even heard any news of attacks against the Crown Prince in recent months.

Everyone waited fearful and trembling to bear the Crown Prince’s fury.

Su Mu was indeed very angry and immediately ordered the sealing of the entire capital to search for suspicious persons throughout the city.

Su Mu did not wish to kill innocent people, but he was not the holy father. When his life was threatened, he felt that he should reciprocate, no matter who the other party was.

The newly built dragon chair was gilded, and Su Mu felt it was much more comfortable to sit on.

After the officials routinely reported their affairs, Peng Han, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, stepped forward and said: “Your Highness, the official examination will be in a month. Please appoint the chief and deputy examiners.”

Su Mu nodded: “Peng Han, you are the main examiner, Yun Jing, you are the deputy examiner.”

“Thank you Your Highness.”

“Wang Wenze.” Su Mu called.

Wang Wenze stepped forward and responded: “Chen is here.”

“Ben Gong order you to go to Yishan to construct a weaponry plant. You will be the supervisor, and the Ministry of Revenue will allocate one million taels. Besides……” After Su Mu finished making successive orders, he felt like an old mother that needed to take care of everything personally.

After retiring from the court, Su Mu made his way busily to the Imperial Study Room to review the memorials.

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Look, look, what is all of this. Li Shilang’s (TN: assistant minister) manner is not correct, lingering in the brothel every night; Wu Yushi (TN: imperial censor) does not adhere to filial piety, driving his old parents back to the countryside. Lord Lu is diligent and loving towards the people and should be promoted……

Su Mu’s head was about to explode from looking at all these trivial matters.

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Luohuang City, County Residence

Shangguan Hao held a white letter in silence.

When the other people in the study saw that Shangguan Hao hadn’t said a word for a long time, they stood up anxiously and asked, “General, what did the beast Su Mochi write?”

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Shangguan Hao raised his head and said, “Actually, I don’t know?”

“Ah?!” The questioner was dumbfounded.

Shangguan Hao handed him the letter, and then this military officer instantly became furious. “What exactly does Su Mochi mean? He doesn’t put us in his eyes, actually humiliating us like this!”

Other people went up and took a look, and they were immediately conflicted.

On the snow-white paper, the messy ink splotches were twisted this way and that way like ghost symbols. No one could understand what was written. It was even worse than what a three-year-old kid could write.

An old gentleman shook his head in deep lament and said: “The Emperor is muddleheaded and incompetent, the Crown Prince is uneducated, the kingdom in their hands will sooner or later be conquered by the neighboring countries. General Shangguan we have just gained a victory, it is the perfect timing to go on the offensive! As long as we occupy Luohuang City and the surrounding cities and cut off the supply of food, the imperial city will inevitably be thrown in upheaval. It is the perfect opportunity to capture and kill the dog Emperor and Crown Prince!”

“The people’s popular sentiment in the imperial city had long been in upheaval, but Su Mochi is still perfectly unharmed and intact. Why is this?”

Shangguan Hao glanced around and seeing no one answered, he then said: “Because of his high martial arts, and in order to continue the unscrupulous corruption and perverting of the law, the traitorous officials in the imperial court must set up a shield and protect him as well. Besides, even if we occupy the imperial city, I won’t be able to catch Su Mochi or kill him. When that happens, and he is driven into a corner he will kill us all one by one, and still he will be able to live well. Su Mochi sent a messenger to spread the word if we dared to seize other cities, he will slaughter Luohuang City.”

“Su Mochi, that beast! Then should we just watch the displacement and starvation of the people of Qing kingdom?”

Shangguan Hao clenched his fists tightly, and stared into the distance, saying decisively: “No, I will hang the heads of the dog Emperor and Crown Prince at the entrance of the market to pay tribute to all those who died in grievance because of their actions.”

Shangguan Hao revealed a bloodthirsty smile and said: “It won’t be long before this day will come.”

After seeing Shangguan Hao’s terrifying smile, everyone suddenly felt fear.

Realizing his loss in composure, Shangguan Hao immediately hid his emotions and said to those sitting around him: “You don’t need to worry, the Lord Master has set everything up. It won’t take long before we can seize the capital and capture the dog Emperor and Crown Prince alive. All we have to do now is to wait.”

Su Mu knew that his goal was achieved after hearing from the messenger.

At the same time, Chen Wei, the general who volunteered to lead the army during morning assembly, offended Su Mochi somehow, and all his family members were secretly executed, and Chen Wei himself had disappeared.

Three months later, Chen Wei, who took 50,000 soldiers and fled overnight, occupied the northern Bailu County and announced his rebellion of the imperial court.

In this way, Qing kingdom can be said to be surrounded on all sides and in a dangerous state, the Su royal family about to collapse at any time.

After knowing of the incident, the Crown Prince flew into a rage and violently killed more than a dozen people in the Crown Prince’s Palace, and violently demolished half of it before quelling his anger. Among these dozen people included the Crown Prince’s royal bodyguard Han Yi.

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Qin Ye, who had received the news, threw back his head and laughed: “Hahaha, retribution! Fortunately, I am not dead. You actually have today, Su Mochi. Let me see how long you can survive the siege from all directions in the south, east, north and west.”

Yun Feiyu, who was attending to the orchids, listened to Qin Ye’s crazy laughter and said nothing, no emotions could be seen in his dark eyes.

At the same time, in the tall and majestic palace located in the Shi kingdom southwest of the Qing kingdom, a handsome but cold and harsh looking man recieved news. Suddenly the look in his eyes became incomparably intimidating, and slowly his thin lips lifted up in a determined smile.

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Han Yang stood respectfully next the debris that had once been the Crown Prince’s personal quarters. He resisted the emotions surging in his heart, and said in as calm a voice as much as possible: “Your Highness, a letter from Han Yi.”

Receiving the letter from Han Yang and opening it, only two words appeared, already settled.

After seeing it, Su Mu picked up a brush and wrote a few words before putting it in the envelope.

Then Su Mu disguised himself and with two small paper bags, came to the largest trading company in the seven kingdoms, Xingluo trading company.

Su Mu appeared directly in the person in charge’s room in the middle of the night.

Therefore, as soon as Yan Ming opened the door, he saw a veiled noble Gongzi sitting in a chair waiting for him. Yan Ming didn’t yell or run, instead he closed the door and walked up to Su Mu with a smiling face and said: “Don’t know why Gongzi has come to my humble house?”

Su Mu privately nodded his head, his his ability to keep calm was really good.

Su Mu said: “Naturally to discuss business.”

Yan Ming asked with a smile: “Don’t know what business Gongzi wants to discuss with me?”

“This.” Su Mu pointed to the two paper bags on the table.

A square-shaped plastered object and a pile of paper that is thin enough to transmit light?

“Don’t know what these two things are? And what they are used for?” Yan Ming asked.

“This is called laundry soap, this is toilet paper, which is used when going to the toilet.” Su Mu introduced.

Although it was a ripoff product that was tens of thousands of miles worse than the modern versions, it was still hard to come by in this time and space.

Yan Ming’s eyes brightened, and the businessman’s intuition made him feel that these two things will be profitable.

“Don’t know how to use this laundry soap? And what is the effect?”

Su Mu said: “Just try it and you will know.”

Two bowls of water and greased cloth that had been prepared long ago were taken out by Shi Nuo, another bodyguard who had been standing next to Su Mu.

According to Su Mu’s instructions, Shi Nuo dipped the dirty cloth in the water, and then put on laundry soap.

When a piece of clean cloth was presented to Yan Ming, Yan Ming’s eyes suddenly became brighter, and he asked: “Can it be mass-produced and how much is the price?”

Su Mu said: “It can’t be mass-produced, 50 coins for one piece.”

“How about a three-to-seven split? Gongzi.” Yan Ming secretly calculated out how to obtain greater benefits, waiting for Su Mu to make a counteroffer.

However, he did not expect that Su Mu directly agreed, but hoped the Xingluo trading company keep jis information secret. Yan Ming also requested refund for invalid products and exclusive cooperation, which Su Mu also agreed.

At the Crown Prince’s Palace, Su Mu just arrived at the entrance of his private quarters when he smelled a faint orchid fragrance, but the refreshing orchid fragrance did not calm Su Mu’s mind.

Yun Feiyu, what was he doing here?

Like the appearance of a fresh orchid after rain, it seemed incompatible with the ostentatious magnificence of the Crown Prince’s Palace.

He should be a hermit in the mountains, a mysterious person who is knowledgeable of important matters of kingdoms and possessed ability to set the world to rights, and not a small male companion in the harem.

Su Mu felt unfortunate for Yun Feiyu, but he dare not let him go. Once such a person like him was free, it would be like a dragon entering the sea, able to call the wind and call the rain (TN: expression for stirring up trouble).

He also couldn’t bear to kill him, didn’t want to kill him, so he could only slowly conquer him. What’s more, he may not be able to kill him anyway.

“Why are you here?” Su Mu walked over and asked.

“I heard that Your Highness is in a bad mood, so specially here to invite Your Highness to go boating on Yuping Lake.” When Yun Feiyu’s eyes are full of you, most people would never resist his gentle offense.

Su Mu smiled and said, “Alright.” He wanted to see what he was going to do.

At this time, it was late summer and early autumn, and the residual heat in the imperial city had not yet receded, but here it was very cool.

Under the soft starlight, a small boat quietly floated on the lake. The lake water was like a mirror reflecting the sky and stars. The beautiful faces of the two under the moonlight made this picture more perfect.

The ethereal sound of the qin (TN: 7 string plucked instrument) made people involuntarily calm, and appreciate the beauty of nature and the sound of the qin.

Sitting at the bow of the ship, Su Mu looked at the stars in the sky, the silhouette of the mountains, while listening to the beautiful qin sounds, his eyes gradually blurred. Truly, it would be wonderful if time could stop here.

It’s just that no matter how beautiful the qin sound was, the song will still end.

Yun Feiyu quietly looked at Su Mu’s perfect profile. The starlight coated him with a soft brilliance, as beautiful as a night elf.

How can a person change so much in just a few months? It was obviously the same person with the same face, but it made others feel that they were completely different people.

Are you really the Crown Prince? Yun Feiyu looked at Su Mu quietly, suddenly his heart beat faster. He hurriedly pressed down the emotion sprouting in his heart, and the look in his eyes deepened once again.

He looked at the stars and said, “These stars are so beautiful, don’t know if the gods and immortals in the sky are truly carefree.”

Su Mu said without turning his head: “If some things are too close, you will find his original ugly face. These stars shine because they are burning.”

Yun Feiyu looked at him with an expression of unexpectedness and said: “How does Your Highness know this?”

Su Mu was about to say something when he caught a glimpse of something moving on the shore, and then a sharp arrow flew through the air towards them.

A sharp cold light flashed in his eyes, and Su Mu’s sleeves flicked, and the short arrow turned into powder in front of Su Mu, scattering into the lake.

“Stay on the boat.” After saying so Su Mu’s foot tapped the boat lightly and appeared on the shore of the lake in the blink of an eye.

Soon, fierce fighting came from the woods.

Eight people in black blocked Su Mu’s retreat from eight directions. Six people in black hindered Su Mu, while the other two focused on Su Mu’s vital points and continued to attack.

A cold light flashed in Su Mu’s eyes, and he locked on a target and launched a fierce attack, in just a moment, the man in black lost ground and was sent flying by Su Mu. Slowly Su Mu made more and more fierce shots, and the killing intent in his eyes became heavier.

After sending another one flying, Su Mu frowned. He sensed that he was losing control. If he didn’t stop now, once he lost control completely he won’t be able to stop at all without killing enough people.

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Just as Su Mu was about to get rid of these people quickly, there was a momentary blankness that struck him.

When Su Mu came back to his senses, a cold sharp blade had already penetrated his shoulder.

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After rejecting Yun Feiyu’s villa, he saw several other locations, and finally chose a mountain villa with an open terrain that can accommodate four or five hundred people.

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Speaking of the origin of this villa, Su Mu was quite speechless. The place was built by a wealthy businessman from the south, but he just finished building only to come upon Su Mochi beginning his havoc causing ways. In the beginning, the wealthy businessmen could persist for the money.

But three years ago, after Su Mochi’s massacre of the nine cities, this wealthy businessman was frightened into a stroke and ran away to the neighboring Jin kingdom with his family overnight. Since then, he did not dare to step into the Qing kingdom.

And as for his villa, it was put up for sale. It’s just that what rich person would run to Su Mochi’s territory to buy a house!

The house had been empty for three years and cannot be lived in for the time being. Su Mu ordered people to clean the house and hired a few commoners who could make rough paper. Of course, their families would live with them in the villa.

Half a month later, there were already more than 100 people in the villa, most of whom were slaves and belonging to Su Mu’s private property.

Su Mu sat on the chair of Chinese cedar, behind him was Han Yi and Han Yang who were dressed in plain clothes but still not at all lacking in their out of the ordinary aura. Su Mu’ demeanor was also even more unspeakably noble.

The slaves and craftsmen stood in the courtyard waiting for instruction, some of them couldn’t help but peek at Su Mu, and then realized that they couldn’t move their eyes.

That little skin is so tender! That little mouth is so attractive! Those little eyes are so bright……

Of course these were the descriptions by a certain infatuated commoner who lacked vocabulary.

Most people just think that Su Mu’s handsomeness was out of the ordinary, knowing just from a glance that he was a dragon or phoenix among men. Privately they couldn’t help but look forward to the coming days. After all, the wages negotiated at the beginning were not low.

A sharp gaze swept across the crowd, and those who were peeking at Su Mu suddenly startled and hurriedly lowered their heads to listen to the instructions.

Of course, there was no need for Su Mu to come in person to give out instructions, he just came to have them recognize their furture master. And also to take care of the matter of soap, toilet paper and movable type printing.

After Han Yi made threats and promises, Su Mu brought three old men who could made coarse paper to the main hall.

After seeing Su Mu sitting down, the three of them bowed lowly and said: “Don’t know what orders Gongzi have for the three of us.”

Su Mu looked at the three elderly men who were visibly nervous and said with a smile, “The three of you don’t have to be so formal, please sit down.”

The old man hurriedly said: “How can this be done? This old man, I can just stand up. If you have any orders, please just let us know.”

Su Mu did not force the matter, putting down the tea cup, he said: “It is like this, I want the three of you to help me make a paper that is as white as snow, soft as silk, thin as gauze, and melts in water.”

“This……” The three old men looked at each other. As thin as gauze and melts when in water. What can this paper be used for, it would definitely be impossible to write on!

An old man in his early fifties stepped forward and said: “Don’t know what Gongzi wants this kind of paper for. Forgive this old man for saying so but this kind of paper that can neither write nor be used to paste windows, no one will be willing to buy. Also how can paper be white ike snow, soft as silk, thin as gauze, and melts in water?”

Su Mu said: “How it can be made, I don’t know, but I know it can definitely be done. Just follow the usual steps, but slowly make changes and improvements, this requires the three of you to spend more energy.”

“Gongzi is joking, this is originally what we should be doing.”

After the three old men left, Su Mu called in two other people.

“Master.” These were two middle-aged men who were demoted to slaves for offending officials, and both were literate.

Su Mu said: “I need two people to use grass dust and grease to make things that can wash clothes stains, how much grease and grass dust should be used, you two slowly experiment. You can also try to add other things.”

The two looked at each other, and then replied in unison: “Yes.”

After calling in the third wave of craftsmen to tell them how to make movable type printing, the sky was already dark.

After Su Mu left a dew dozens of guards to guard Qingye Villa, he went back home.

The outskirts of the city had particularly bad roads, causing Su Mu to become dizzy while sitting in the carriage, thinking to himself that he must quickly repair the roads.

But, he, had, no, money!

Su Mu felt that he was going crazy from being poor, so Su Mu who had been pretending to be a statue during morning assembly after it was resumed, felt that he should act.

The next day, after all officials had reported their official affairs, Su Mu who had not spoken in the hall for a month, suddenly smiled.

All the officials suddenly got a bad feeling.

Sure enough, the Crown Prince’s voice immediately sounded: “The whole of Qing kingdom, with a territory of hundreds of thousands of miles, but the treasury has only a mere five hundred thousand taels.” Su Mu paused, an expression half angry half amused on his face.

The officials below felt like their hearts were swinging up and down.

Su Mu beckoned to behind him and took a memorial from the old eunuch.

Su Mu casually opened the memorial, and sneered: “Using swallow’s nest soup to rinse mouth, ginseng decoction to soak feet, gold to pave the floors, white jade to construct tables……”

Along with each word recited by Su Mu, the officials’ faces became even more pale. For so many years, the Emperor had no interest in political affairs, spending whole days in the harem. The Crown Prince also only knew how to kill people and snatch men, disregarding of everything else. So these officials vigorously embezzled money to the best of their ability. Who knew that the Crown Prince would suddenly change his behavior, seeming to make better efforts.

And everyone knew who was mentioned in the memorial.

Su Mu closed the memorial, and stared at a certain official with sharp eyes, throwing the memorial to the floor on the spot, and said angrily: “Lord Zhang, Zhang Fu’an, you are truly rich!”

Zhang Fu’an knelt on the ground with a plop, howling and crying: “Your Highness, please spare me, Your Highness, please spare me……!” Zhang Fu’an knocked his head on the ground, not daring to stop even after he began bleeding from his forehead.

“Your Highness, please spare me, Your Highness, please spare me……!”

Su Mu’s eyes flashed with an icy light, and he coldly snorted: “You corrupt the law, selling and buying official titles and treat human life as grass yet you want Ben Gong to spare you?”

Wasn’t this model set by the Emperor and you? You promoted Liu Yuanhua for the sake of Liu Xi, and for Ye Qingfeng, you massacred hundreds in Xuefeng Villa!

Of course, the officials only dared to complain silently in their hearts, not daring to show the least bit of it on their faces.

Zhang Fu’an’s face was ashy grey and his whole body lost feeling. “Your Highness, chen, chen……”

A faint cold light flashed in Su Mu’s eyes, and he sternly called out: “Guards, take Zhang Fu’an away to be executed!”

The pleads and screams from outside the great hall doors came to an abrupt halt, and the officials in the Taihe Hall all broke out in a cold sweat, for fear that it would be their turn next.

Su Mu’s gaze swept the group of officials who appeared as obedient as little rabbits, and his mood became slightly happier. After a while of silence, he called out: “The Ministry of Justice……”

Before Su Mu’s words had yet to finish, the Taihe Hall began to eagerly echo with roof shaking screams.

“Your, Royal, Highness, this, old, chen, have, been, wronged!!!”

The harsh sound penetrated Su Mu’s ears, causing him to frown uncomfortably, and he shouted, “Shut up.”

Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice was like a duck pinched by the neck, his screams abruptly stopping.

Su Mu glanced at Chen Xurong, who was constantly wiping at sweat and shaking like a sieve. He frowned and said: “What are you shaking for? Ben Gong only wanted you to seize and confiscate Zhang Fu’an’s family property for the kingdom’s treasury.”

“Your, Your Highness……” Chen Xurong was overjoyed and promised that Zhang Fu’an’s estate would be seized and confiscated cleanly and completely, not even the newly born mice who haven’t even opened their eyes will be exempted.

Su Mu nodded with satisfaction, and slowly said: “The monarch is like a boat, the people are like water, and the water can carry and overturn the boat. Recently, 100,000 people are displaced by the Xijiang River flooding. Ben Gong’s heart feel anxious on their behalf but the treasury is empty and unable to provide disaster relief. In order to set an example, Ben Gong will donate 300,000 taels of gold and 100,000 taels of silver. I hope that you all will also contribute to the people.”

At the end of the speech, Su Mu’s tone had a clear chill, clear naked threat being conveyed. He donated his pure gold bed, do you all dare not to donate as well?!

Poor Zhang Fu’an was the chicken that was killed to warn the monkey (TN: expression that refers to punishing an individual as an example to others).

Su Mu’s intimidation techniques were very effective. After the morning assembly, hundreds of civil and military officials rushed home to check their property.

On the first day, two million taels of gold and 10 million taels of silver.

On the second day, seven hundred thousand taels of gold and five million taels of silver.

On the third day, one hundred thousand taels of gold and nine hundred thousand taels of silver.

In an instant, Su Mu raked in this much money that even when dreaming he would wake up laughing. But at the same time, he was deeply worried.

This country was already rotten to the roots, and it was as difficult to save it as it was to climb the sky. The Qing kingdom had yet to collapse so far because of Su Mochi’s horrifying martial prowess suppressing it. Su Mochi’s massacre of the nine cites prevented anyone from making a move, for fear of angering Su Mochi, and committing another “Bloodbath of the Nine Cities.”

Even so, the situation was already very bad. The borders continue to have friction every year and the kingdom’s territory was continuously shrinking. If this continued, sooner or later Qing kingdom will be wiped out.

Su Mu looked at the memorial reporting that the Southwest Army had occupied Luohuang city, and his expression became dark.

Luohuang city was located in the middle reaches of the Xijiang River, surrounded by tens of thousands of hectares of grain fields. One-third of the grains in the Qing kingdom came from Luohuang city and surrounding cities.

Su Mu rubbed his painful forehead, feeling that his head was about to explode. Most of the military officials in the imperial court were useless straw bags. And the only one capable, General Zhenyuan Qin Kunyu had hatred for him.

Su Mu thought about it for a long time, but he didn’t come up with anyone suitable for leading a campaign.

So the next morning, Su Mu asked directly: “Who is willing to lead soldiers to fight?”

Su Mu waited for a long time but didn’t see anyone stand out. The anger he had accumulated over the whole night broke out instantly, and the pure gold dragon chair under him instantly fell apart. “A bunch of useless pieces of trash, cowards, does the imperial court raise you for free, do you still have the face to go out in public? Ben Gong will ask again, who is willing to lead soldiers to fight?”

The officials practically wished to bury their heads into the ground, and the military officials in particular wished to shout out how wronged they were.

Who would dare to lead a group of soldiers who love ease and comfort but hate work and who can’t even lift their weapons? What’s more, most soldiers don’t even have weapons.

Suddenly, a plain-looking young general hesitated for a while and walked to the middle, saying: “Your Royal Highness, chen is willing to fight, but……”

Su Mu looked delighted and waved his hand, asking: “Just what, speak.”

The young military commander said: “It’s just that the soldiers have not been on campaigns for many years and lack weapons. Once they face the heavily armed Southwest Army, they will have no chance of winning.”

Su Mu silently paced back and forth. This was indeed a big problem. Without weapons it was just running to their deaths no matter how many soldiers there were, but the weapons cannot be made instantly.

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In the end, Su Mu could only grit his teeth and swallow down blood, he will remember this account.

But Su Mu can’t do nothing, otherwise it would not just be Luohuang city that will fall.

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Huang Xuan was stunned, lifted his foot forcefully and walked inside.

A secret fragrance penetrated his nostrils, and the door slowly closed. Huang Xuan’s heart trembled and had no choice but to put on a brave front and walk to the luxurious pure gold bed.

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The soft gauze curtains hung to the ground, and the figure on the bed only appeared half visible. The faint harsh breathing and moans that came from behind the curtains made Huang Xuan gradually forget his fear. A wave of heat gradually gathered in his lower abdomen.

He lifted the gauze curtains and saw a scene that would have anyone’s blood rushing in their veins.
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Sure enough, after a round, he was all refreshed and alert.

When Su Mu opened his eyes in the morning, he thought of a brilliant idea, and sat up suddenly from the bed. Huang Xuan, who was next to him, was suddenly awakened and hurriedly knelt on the bed, saying with unease: “Your Highness.”

After realizing that he was completely naked, he hurriedly pulled over the bed sheet to cover the most private part. Face flushed red, he lowered his head and from time to time took peeks at the Crown Prince who was also similarly undressed. When he saw Su Mu’s waist, where slight finger shaped bruises were still visible, his face turned even redder.

At this moment, Su Mu felt that the whole world was brighter, everything was seen in a pleasant light. He was even more pleased when his eyes laid on the person who served him the whole of last night, so he threw himself over and grabbed Huang Xuan in a hot kiss.

After the both of them had bodily reactions from the deep kiss Su Mu hurriedly stepped on the brakes. Su Mu bit Huang Xuan’s lip one last time, and moved to whisper into Huang Xuan’s ear, “Babe, you were awesome!”

“Peng” Huang Xuan exploded in embarrassment, face and body blushing completely.

Su Mu jumped out of bed and washed up quickly, and then went to the study where he spread out the paper and used ink and brush to write a plan.

The corners of his eyes and eyebrows curved from excited smiles. Different from the previous Su Mochi’s cruel and vicious aura, Su Mu at this moment was like a shining pearl that gleamed with brilliance, causing people to be reluctant to remove their eyes.

Yuzhu stared at Su Mu blankly, and even forgot to rub the ink. She didn’t come back to her senses until Su Mu stopped his writing.

Then, looking down, her pretty face suddenly became scrunched up.

On the paper that Su Mu had just wrote on in a rush, there were a mess of ink blotches arranged in an indecipherable array, just like the masterpiece of a three-year-old child who just learned to write.

In fact, this really can’t be blamed on Su Mu. In the modern times, he hadn’t learned calligraphy not to mention it was not only difficult to master the brush, there were also a lot of strokes in traditional characters. And add that to the fact that he was in a rush, so the end result was something that can’t even fully be described as “horrible”.

Su Mu didn’t have this self-awareness though. He looked at his “masterpiece” as if seeing a road paved in gold beckoning to him.

But after a while, he frowned again. After Su Mu calmed down he sat back in the chair, his index and middle fingers tapping at the tabletop rhythmically.

There were many modern things that could be transplanted to the ancient times, but he didn’t remember much of them. But there is one essential thing in life that was found in the modern times that he did remember.

That is, toi-let pa-per!

Su Mu didn’t know how toilet paper was made, but he remembered what toilet paper looked like. This time and space can already produce writing paper, so as long as he provided the ideas, it should not be difficult to do be manufactured.

There was also soap. Su Mu once accidentally saw on the Internet that soap could be made from plant ash and oil.

But in truth, what excited Su Mu most was the “movable type printing”, one of China’s four great inventions. In this era of hand-copying and engraved printing, it was simply too high-ended in comparison.

It’s just that this technology was too easy to be learned. To Su Mu the most profitable was still toilet paper and soap.

But Su Mu was currently lacking the most important and critical element, people!

Su Mochi’s notorious name spread wide and far. People in the imperial city will hide far away if they even hear someone mention his name. Who dared to seek livlihood with him?

It wasn’t as if he could do it all by himself! Moreover, to tell the truth, there were really many things that he simply couldn’t compare to ancient people.

Su Mu frowned in distress, and finally decided to get the things out first before planning anything, so he ordered Yuzhu: “Go call Han Yi and Han Yang.”

At this time, at the other end of the Crown Prince’s Palace, Huang Xuan, who just walked to the door, was greeted by an anxious Qin Ye: “How are you? Where are you uncomfortable? Qian Gonggong (TN: title for eunuch), please call the royal doctor!”

Huang Xuan hurriedly pulled the anxious Qin Ye, in his heart he was a little moved, saying, “Brother Qin, I am fine.”

Qin Ye immediately said angrily: “How could you be fine, that beast Su Mochi……Don’t be shy it will be trouble if you let your injuries fester.”

“I’m truly fine, Brother Qin, if you don’t believe me then look for yourself.” Huang Xuan smiled and jumped on the ground a few times. It didn’t look like anything happened at all, in fact he appeared more energetic than usual.

Qin Ye suddenly couldn’t figure it out, and said, “Were you with the Crown Prince last night?”

Huang Xuan blushed and nodded.

“He didn’t do anything to you?” Qin Ye asked again.

Huang Xuan hurriedly shook his head, but then blushed and nodded.

“Did he or not?” Qin Ye asked irritably.

“No, no!” Huang Xuan stuttered.

“Then you……”

Yun Feiyu, who had been sitting on the side, interrupted: “Qin Ye.”

As soon as Yun Feiyu spoke up, Qin Ye immediately swallowed the words he was about to speak.

A faint orchid fragrance lingered in the air, Yun Feiyu got up and gently said to Huang Xuan: “You go back and rest first.”

Huang Xuan nodded and went back to his room.

“What the hell is Su Mochi planning? First, he announced that he would resume morning assembly, hadn’t touched a man for a month but then suddenly summoned Huang Xuan to shi qin. Is it because he knew that he had committed too many sins and would be punished, so therefore paying repentance?” Qin Ye said mockingly. As long as the name Su Mochi was mentioned, Qin Ye never had a good expression.

Yun Feiyu turned around and fiddled with the orchids in the basin, and said, “Isn’t it a good thing that the Crown Prince is not killing people anymore?”

“Don’t you know Su Mochi’s nature? The sky will rain gold before Su Mochi change his evil ways!” Qin Ye said with a sneer.

Yun Feiyu did not respond, gently wiping the green leaves of the orchid, his expression appeared dim and unclear.

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A gentleman like jade, warm to the touch.

The slanting raindrops drizzled down one after another, jet black hair and green blue robe call to mind orchids and bamboos, and in the light white mist, the figure stood quietly under the willow trees, faint like a dream.

Su Mu was stunned briefly when he saw Yun Feiyu, and then remembered the long forgotten verse. He couldn’t help changing his original direction and walked towards him.

“You are, Yun Feiyu?” Su Mu inherited the complete memory of Su Mochi. He knew that this person was Su Mochi’s number one male companion, the eldest son of the Shangshu of the Ministry of Appointments, and the famed jade-like Gongzi of the capital.

Even if it was their first real meeting, Su Mu couldn’t help sighing, Su Mochi you truly committed a crime, how can you torment this kind of person.

Seeing Su Mu coming, Yun Feiyu raised the corner of his mouth lightly, saying: “Greetings to His Royal Highness.”

The lethality was too great. As a man who liked men, Yun Feiyu was simply a weapon of mass destruction, a man-killer.

This aura, this face, this figure, this demeanor, this skin, it all absolutely overshadowed hundreds of millions of women from the modern times.

Seeing him, Su Mu unconsciously softened his voice, and said: “You may get up.” Then he said: “What are you doing here when it is raining? Go back quickly.”

“Thank you, Your Highness.” Yun Feiyu smiled lightly, toppling cities and all living beings, gentle eyes looked at Su Mu: “I heard from imperial bodyguard Han saying that Your Highness wanted to find a villa?”

Su Mu nodded, he couldn’t possibly make soap or anything in the Crown Prince’s Palace.

Yun Feiyu smiled and said: “This caomin (TN: commoner referring to themselves when speaking with officials or royal members) have a villa lying idle in the south of the city, and the scenery is very good. If Your Highness doesn’t mind, please take it.”

“How can I take your things, in such a large imperial city would I be afraid of being unable to find a house?” Ingratiation from out of nowhere was something to be wary of.

Yun Feiyu was a very special person in Su Mochi’s memory.

Three years ago, Yun Jing suddenly announced the return of his sickly eldest son, who had been raised outside the capital since he was young. In just three months of returning to the capital, he became the lauded jade-like Gongzi by everyone in the imperial city.

After Su Mochi learned that Yun Feiyu was secretly named the first beautiful man in the Qing kingdom by the young ladies and wives in the imperial city, he decisively snatched the person.

Su Mu couldn’t help but think of the scene when Su Mochi saw Yun Feiyu for the first time.

By the edge of the Yuping Lake, peach blossoms fell like rain, and dressed in a white brocade robe Yun Feiyu was like an immortal descended from the heavens. Standing quietly by the lake all the landscape became his foil.

Even twisted as Su Mochi couldn’t help but be struck in a daze for a while, and then immediately snatching him away after coming back to himself. Additionally, Su Mochi was much gentler to Yun Feiyu. Of course, this “gentleness” was relative to other people.

Su Mu’s perfect face was reflected in the warm eyes of Yun Feiyu, and Yun Feiyu sighed softly, “Your Highness, do you dislike me?”

Just a light sigh, still with a gentle smile on his face, but it could make everyone clearly feel his disappointment and desperately wishing to beat up the person who made him sad.

It’s just that towards Yun Feiyu Su Mu had a vigilant heart, no matter how he looked this Yun Feiyu had a problem, alright?

When facing Su Mochi or Su Mu, there was no emotion in his eyes except gentleness. Even if Su Mochi left him with humiliating scars, he never had any hatred or fear in his eyes.

Such an obvious abnormality can only go undetected by the pig brained Su Mochi.

Su Mu wiped all his emotions and said, “Why, you think too much.”

Yun Feiyu did not refute, but only slowly moved forward until their breaths blended together. Clear and bright eyes looked into Su Mu’s eyes, if it was any other ordinary person they would either become intoxicated or retreat in embarrassment.

Su Mu did not retreat, nor was he intoxicated. He chuckled in a frivolous manner: “In broad daylight and in public, does Yun Gongzi plan to throw yourself into my embrace?”

After Yun Feiyu saw the two needle-sized moles behind Su Mu’s ears, his eyes flickered.

Yun Feiyu stepped back and looked at Su Mu and said, “I’m afraid that Your Highness doesn’t need Feiyu to throw myself into your embrace anymore.” Then he bowed and said, “Caomin will not disturb His Royal Highness, caomin ask to be excused.”

Su Mu watched Yun Feiyu’s slender figure disappear behind the high wall, his expression indecipherable.

At noon, Han Yi and Han Yang reported that there was a nice villa in the south of the city, and the price was fair, and asked Su Mu if he wanted to buy it.

“The southern part?” Su Mu, who was sitting behind his desk, suspected something, and then said: “You go and find out who the owner of that villa is.”

“Yes, Your Highness.” After Han Yi and Han Yang went out, Su Mu somehow kept recalling the blue green figure in the drizzling rain in his head, falling asleep without knowing it.

Su Mu opened his eyes and saw the golden canopy of his bed, wondering how he suddenly found himself sleeping on the bed.

“Your Highness, you are awake, your servant will go and tell the kitchen to prepare dinner for you.” Yuzhu’s voice sounded nearby.

Su Mu nodded, saw that it was already dark outside and asked, “What time is it now?”

“It’s xu shi (TN: 7-9pm) Your Highness.” Yuzhu replied.

Su Mu waved his hand and said, “Hnn, go ahead, and call in Han Yi and Han Yang.”

Han Yi and Han Yang arrived shortly after Yuzhu walked out.

“Paying respects to His Royal Highness.” The two said at the same time.

“You may stand, have you found anything?” Su Mu asked.

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Han Yi bent over and cupped his fist, and said: “Answering to His Royal Highness, the villa was given to Yun Gongzi by Lord Yun when Yun Gongzi just returned three years ago.”

Su Mu suddenly narrowed his eyes dangerously: “Yun Feiyu.”

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Su Mu returned to the Crown Prince’s Palace with a cold face, the whole way all who saw the Crown Prince took a detour rather than to cross his path. The court servants following the Crown Prince were not as fortunate, walking with their hearts in their throats.

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Su Mu stood in the courtyard for martial arts drilling and practice and said in a deep voice, “Everyone leave.”

The entire procession of court servants responded with an affirmative before disappearing from the courtyard in the blink of an eye.

You say that leaving the Crown Prince alone, there might be a possibility that he would be in danger?

Hehe, the youngest son of Ye Haolin, the second most powerful martial artist of the Central Plains, was snatched and ravaged by the Crown Prince for three years, and yet the Crown Prince did not even lose a single hair.

Just when the group of eunuchs and palace ladies left, all kinds of loud noises were heard coming from inside the courtyard.

Su Mu’s eyes were full of hostility, the beautiful eyes were full of the desire to destroy everything. A slender hand stretched toward the weapon rack, and a two-meter long broadsword appeared in his hand instantly.

The next moment, the huge courtyard was sealed off by layers of sword light, the sharp and dazzling traces of the broadsword flickered incessantly, and the debris and dust in the courtyard went flying all over the place.

The earsplitting sounds lasted for half an hour before Su Mu walked out of the courtyard. His whole person was still composed and elegant, with an aura that was unspeakably noble. His black hair was half tied and half neatly draped behind him, not a single strand of hair was out of place.

Those who don’t know will never think that he was the very person who was just in a crazy rampage inside just now. Here and there, pits more than two meters deep silently accused Su Mu of his violent behavior.

Su Mu returned to his personal quarters with a cold face, thinking about whether or not to just run away, it was simply unreasonable for this country not to perish. Su Mu layed down on the dragon bed made of pure gold, feeling his head swollen and painful.

He spent a month understanding the current situation of Qing kingdom, and then discovered that ten years ago, Tian Guohai in the east pronounced himself king of six counties, and the peasants in the seven southeast counties rebelled, and the six counties in the southwest followed.

And Su Mochi only learned about all this two years ago. The three kings sent ambassadors to persuade him to surrender, and was all undoubtedly killed by Su Mochi.

Then the three kings formed an alliance and attacked the capital of the Qing kingdom from three directions, south, east and west. If it was any ordinary country, it would undoubtedly be destroyed.

However, here there was an abnormality known as Su Mochi. Afterwards, it became the nightmare of the three kings’ allied armies.

Su Mochi first attacked the Southern Army with a thousand men of sacrifice that he had personally trained, without the intention of regaining lost ground, nor winning the people’s hearts, only one word, kill!

When exhuastion from the killing came over them or the enemy were too strong then flee for now, and then continue to come back and kill, until all the people in the city were dead. Not even a little mouse was spared.

Next came the Southern Army and the Western Army. A total of nine garrison cities not a one was spared, and Su Mochi’s murder count reached the hundreds of thousands.

Su Mu had to work hard to forget those memories, as hundreds of thousands of grievances were too heavy.

Those in Qing kingdom who did not have hatred for him could likely be counted on one hand. No matter how strong Su Mochi was, he was just a mortal after all. Didn’t Qin Ye poison him to death?

Unfortunately, in the eyes of the world, Su Mochi did not die at all.

Su Mu tossed round in bed with irritation, everything required money, but currently he just didn’t have any money.

Paper making, brothels, casinos, porcelain, etc. all existed already in this world. And he doesn’t know how to make glass, weapons and gunpowder.

He only knew how to enjoy China’s thousands of years of cultural inventions. As for beauty products, ao~, no thanks, he is a man.

The more Su Mu thought about it, the more he couldn’t fall asleep. Not only that, he also felt his body temperature gradually rise, getting hotter and hotter, like a big fire suddenly began burning in his body.

Su Mu naturally knew he was not having a fever, he was just sex-ual-ly un-sa-tis-fied!

The demonic arts that Su Mochi cultivated emphasized indulgence of desire, the desire to kill and desire of fleshly pleasures were perfectly exemplified in him.

In the past month or so not only had Su Mu not even killed an ant, he hadn’t touched a man either. Because of this everyone was already up in debates.

Of course, Su Mu didn’t have any time to care about that at this moment. Right now his eyes appeared like two misty springs, red lips slightly parted, and his body exuded an aura of sexual dissatisfaction.

A month, Su Mu thought that this might be the limit of this body.

But he doesn’t want to call over the men in the Crown Prince’s Palace. Were any of the men here not possessing hatred for him?

So he bit his teeth, closed his eyes, and stretched out his hand. Su Mu decided to take care of it on his own. In the dark, a slightly restrained groan that made one blush and heartbeat fast sounded.

After a long while, Su Mu stopped his movements, depressed. This body had such a crazy past and memories that it wasn’t possible for it to be satisfied with just a hand.

After a while, Su Mu couldn’t bear it anymore, so he could only thicken his skin and call out in a hoarse voice: “Yuzhu, go call Huang Xuan over.”

Yuzhu, who was guarding the door, responded: “Yes, Your Highness.”

Yuzhu was very worried about Huang Xuan while on the way to Feiyu Pavilion. Huang Gongzi was a very good and innocent person. The heavens bless him, I hope His Highness can be gentle tonight. Yuzhu couldn’t help but pray.

In a small courtyard in Feiyu Pavilion, the delicate young man who had just crawled out of the bed suddenly turned pale white. “What, sis-sister Yuzhu, you said that the Crown Prince want-wanted me to go shi qin?”

Yuzhu couldn’t bear to see the look of fear on the young man’s face, but she couldn’t disobey the Crown Prince’s order.

Huang Xuan did not have the most outstanding appearance compared to other men in the Crown Prince’s Palace, so after being snatched by the Crown Prince and tormented for a few days, he was not called to shi qin anymore.

He had thought that the Crown Prince had forgotten him, and he always hoped the Crown Prince had indeed forgotten him. But unexpectedly, the Crown Prince suddenly thought of him again today.

Huang Xuan had no other choice but to put on a brave front and go to the Crown Prince’s sleeping quarters with Yuzhu.

In the dark of night, most of the Crown Prince’s personal quarters were hidden in the gloom, like a devil who yawned open a huge bottomless mouth. Huang Xuan felt that his legs had lost any feeling, unable to move even half a step at the entrance of the Crown Prince’s bedroom.

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“Your Highness, Huang Gongzi is here.” Yuzhu said respectfully at the door.

“Let him in.” A seductive voice came from inside, slightly different from the cruel and vicious voice in his memory.

Huang Xuan was stunned, he lifted his foot forcefully and walked inside.

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Su Mu spent three consecutive days in the Imperial Study Room. And even more miraculously he didn’t kill anyone. In fact, there wasn’t even a sight of the Crown Prince’s usual favorite game of forcing people to eat live frogs, scorpions and centipedes.

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The people in the imperial palace all had tears in their eyes, the devil actually had times when he did not kill. The officials were particularly full of questions. The true nature of the Crown Prince was something these officials were the most clear about. He was someone who would write his own name as “Su Heiye” (TN: the Chinese characters for Mochi and Heiye are kind of similar but with certain additional or missing strokes), and you tell them that His Royal Highness had been diligently reading the memorials for three days!

Hehe, this venerable sir will twist my head off and let you kick it as a ball!

Crown Prince’s Palace, Qionghua Pavilion

Dressed extravagantly in red, Liu Xi leaned lazily on the red sandalwood couch, enchanting phoenix eyes glittered with a charming luster. In a bored manner he fiddled with the jade ring on his thumb, the slender and pale fingers could even compete with warm white jade, enough to make any woman jealous.

Liu Xi snorted coldly, a seductive voice that would make one’s whole body go soft, but the phoenix eyes were full of mockery, red lips lightly opened to say, “Not my shitty business.”

As soon as Liu Yuanhua finished speaking, he heard his son’s merciless verbal face slap, his face turning black, and he scolded: “Liu Xi, what attitude is that, I have worked so hard to raise you and yet you repay me with this attitude!”

Liu Xi sat up abruptly and glared at Liu Yuanhua, shouting: “It was my mother who raised me. Besides selling me, did you give me even a bite of food?!”

Liu Yuanhua was so angry he was out of breath, pointing at Liu Xi’s nose he cursed: “You……you unfilial son, where did your current glory and wealth come from? If it wasn’t for me offering you to the Crown Prince, you would have long since become a courtesan at Chu Tower waiting to be fucked!”

“Fuck your mother, you old bastard, if it weren’t for your @#%……I wouldn’t become what I am today, you damn old man, fuck your whole family@#%………”

Liu Xi’s facial features were coquettish and charming, even when he was angry, there was a special kind of temptation. Of course, the premise was to ignore the indecent words coming out of his mouth.

Liu Yuanhua clutched at his chest as he fell into a chair, unable to speak complete sentences. “Fine, fine……you little bastard……”

“You, old, bastard!” Liu Xi gritted his teeth and dearly wished to strangle him.

Of course Liu Yuanhua had the same desire. He glared at Liu Xi fiercely, almost crushing a mouthful of yellow teeth, and threatened: “Don’t forget that your mother is still in the Liu residence. If you want her to have better days, then you better be obedient to me.”

Liu Yuanhua left after speaking, if he continued to stay on, he would likely be angered to death.

The sounds of Liu Xi’s cursing and the shattering of objects came from the house, taking a long time to stop.

Liu Xi stood in the messy room with a dark expression and said with hatred: “Change, clothes!”

Su Mu returned to the room full of gold. A group of court ladies quickly changed his clothes and refreshed him up. Yuzhu was just wiping Su Mu’s hands when a report from a minor court lady outside the door sounded: “His Royal Highness, Liu Gongzi, request to see you.”

“Let him come in.” It seemed that someone had already noticed his changes, Su Mu thought to himself.

Liu Xi wore a red palace attire, hair pulled back with a golden crown, jet black hair gleaming with a faint light. The pair of phoenix eyes naturally charming and seductive, shaking minds and hearts with just the first glance.

Liu Xi placed the porcelain bowl on the table and smiled softly: “Your Highness has been tired from working in the Imperial Study Room for the whole day, chen (TN: I, your servant – used in addressing the sovereign) has made snow pear soup to help cool off the heat.”

Su Mu nodded and sat down. Yuzhu immediately took out a silver needle and placed it in the soup (TN: ancient method of testing for poison in foods). Liu Xi acted as if he hadn’t seen it, gracefully taking a spoonful. “Your Highness, let me feed you……”

The corners of Su Mu’s mouth twitched slightly, more than one layer of goose bumps appeared all over his body, but privately he felt a little numb (TN: sensation of pins and needles). Su Mu took the bowl and drank it in one gulp and said, “Ben Gong (TN: form of self address for royal members) is going to rest. Go back.”

“Your Highness……” Liu Xi called lowly in an aggrieved voice, truly a thousand words were all in his eyes (TN: expression for conveying a lot of things with silence.)

Su Mu felt his heart beating faster, and various indecent images flashed through his mind, leaving him speechless.

Although he doesn’t mind taking care of his needs with someone he liked, but he does mind sleeping with someone who was plotting against him.

Liu Xi said unwillingly: “Your Highness, let me……”

Su Mu narrowed his eyes and said, “Don’t make me say it a second time.”

Liu Xi trembled slightly, not daring to say one more word, lowering his eyes and exiting this too ostentatious room.

Qionghua Pavilion

After dismissing all the servants Liu Xi’s expression suddenly became extremely dark, and the seductive and feminine aura that surrounded him disappeared.

“Liu Yuanhua, Su Mochi, I will flay you both sooner or later!”

On a sunny afternoon, when most of the officials got up for breakfast, they were suddenly told by their stewards that the Crown Prince had sent down a decree to resume the morning assembly from tomorrow. Officials of fourth rank and above must arrive in Taihe Hall at mao shi (5:00 am).

A certain official chocked in shock, old face flushed red, and the rice sprayed all over the table.

The first reaction of everyone was not that the Crown Prince was the prodigal son who returned (TN: expression for someone who turned over a new leaf) and began to worry about the country and the people, but how the Crown Prince plan to torment them.

Recalling the last time they held morning assembly, last year, the Crown Prince suddenly held morning assembly in the middle of the night where he robbed all the officials’ gold, and complained about their inconsistent greeting and irregular bowing etiquette. And thus forcing them to practice for a whole day, not allowed to eat or drink the whole duration. But the most cruel thing was not allowing them to go to the toilet!!

Fortunately, it was night and everyone hadn’t eaten anything. As for the few who couldn’t hold back and urinated in their trousers, thinking about it now their death anniversary will be in a few months!

Although the Crown Prince ordered that they must arrive at mao shi these officials didn’t trully dare to wait until mao shi, almost immediately after yin shi (3-5 am), most officials were already waiting in the side room of Taihe Hall, guessing at what tricks the Crown Prince was planning to play.

Liu Yuanhua was dressed in court clothes but with a gloomy look on his face. A few friendly officials immediately surrounded him, cutting off even the usual polite words, and asked directly: “Lord Liu, do you know why the Crown Prince suddenly announced the resumption of the morning assembly?”

Liu Yuanhua secretly cursed, Liu Xi, that useless thing, and coldly snorted: “How does this venerable sir know.”

The official who had been retorted at said with a moutnful face: “What can be done? I wonder what tricks the Crown Prince is going to play this time?”

When the old eunuch invited all the officials into the Hall, everyone assumed the attitude of waiting for death. When the old eunuch announced that the Crown Prince had arrived, several officials almost collapsed on the ground with their knees.

After hollering “Crown Prince will live a thousand years” three times, Su Mu’s eyes swept across the kneeling civil and military officials, raising his hand and saying, “You may rise.”

After the officials got up from the ground, they lowered their heads and waited nervously for the Crown Prince’s instructions.

“Shangshu (TN: a high ranking official position) of the Ministry of Works, Li Gaosheng.” The devil-like voice of the Crown Prince rang out above their heads.

Li Gaosheng stood trembling in the middle, and soon big beads of sweat instantly soaked his court clothes.

“Chen, chen is here……”

Su Mu, who was sitting above, saw that Li Gaosheng appeared as if his whole family were dead, and he couldn’t help but admire Su Mochi.

What kind of cruelty was this! He has yet to see someone who was unafraid of Su Mochi.

However, this was not entirely just disadvantages, at least no one would dare to act against him in the face of his sudden governance.

Looking at these quail-like officials, Su Mu’s mouth curved and said, “Has someone build a dam for the Xijiang flood?”

What!? The Crown Prince really asked about state affairs today? Could it be that the sun will rise from the west today? This was the thinking of some officials.

The other officials were like, oh my heavens, the Crown Prince was not going to kill people and use their corpses to build dams right! Mother! The Crown Prince is too terrifying!

Li Gaosheng was part of the first half, otherwise he would have definitely been frightened into a stroke. Even so, he still did not dare to relax a little bit. He said with fear: “Your Highness, the Ministry of Revenue has not allocated funds to Chen, Chen have no money to build the dam!”

The Shangshu of the Ministry of Revenue had a mouthful of old blood stuck in his throat, Li Gaosheng you mother fucker, just now you had been acting brotherly with me, but in a blink of an eye you led the disaster down on my head. Very good, this venerable sir has remembered you.

Sun Wei stood up tremblingly and said: “Your Highness, without the will of you and the Emperor’s decree, Chen dare not open the treasury privately.”

Su Mu nodded and said: “If that’s so, then Ben Gong order you to allocate 300,000 taels for the building of the dam, and another 300,000 taels for disaster relief.”

Sun Wei hesitated: “This……Your Highness……”

“Quit mumbling, speak up!”

Sun Wei knelt to the ground with a “peng” and howled miserably: “Your Highness, the Treasury only have 563,250 taels in total!”

Silence, deathly silence, not even the sound of breathing could be heard in the whole Hall. Sun Wei trembled as he knelt down on the ground, afraid to even breath, for fear that the Crown Prince would chop him into pieces.

Su Mu’s entire head had only the words “500,000” “500,000” sounding in his mind, desperately holding in the murderous intent that was surging in his heart, fearing that with a slip of his hand everyone present would be torn apart.

He had considered that this country was very poor, but he did not expect it to be this poor.

At that moment, Su Mu had only two feelings in his heart. How much is five hundred thousand taels? It is only about 5 million yuan when converted into RMB. The national treasury of a country was only 5 million!!! Was it even enough to hand out the salary!!!

His limited edition Ferrari that had been crashed into unrecognizable pieces of metal, was worth ten times more alright! The anger surging in his chest suddenly couldn’t be held back.

With a “peng” the pure gold armrest on the chair was broken in Su Mu’s grip.

After a long pause, Su Mu took a deep breath and said with a dark face: “Assembly dismissed.”

“Respectfully sending off the Crown Prince.”

As soon as Su Mu disappeared from Jinluan Hall (TN: think there’s a typo by the author, not sure if she meant Taihe or Jinluan Hall as both was used), the previously silent hall where even the falling of a needle was audible suddenly exploded.

No one expected that the Crown Prince actually started to care about the state affairs, but most people thought that the Crown Prince was just treating this as a new plaything.

But there were also people who have ignited a glimmer of hope that the Crown Prince will truly no longer mess around, and that the Crown Prince will work hard to govern the country.

Peng Han, the old Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, walked up to Shangshu Yun Jing of the Ministry of Works (TN: another typo, Li Gaosheng was the Shangshu of the Ministry of Works but now it is Yun Jing 🤔) and said hesitatingly: “Lord Yun, do you think that the Crown Prince is truly determined to start taking charge of the government?”

“This I am unsure about as well!” Yun Jing was worried. When the Crown Prince did not involve himself in the government he still caused disasters to the whole of Qing country. If the Crown Prince indeed personally got involve with government who knows what will happen.

“I wonder, have any rumors from the palace come out?” Peng Shangshu mentioned vaguely.

Yun Jing thought of his son in the Crown Prince’s Palace and sighed, saying: “Fine, I will go have a visit at the Crown Prince’s Palace!”

The dark-faced Qin Kunyu stepped forward and said: “I will go with you.”

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Looking at Qin Kunyu’s haggard face, Yun Jing felt a shared sympathy. The two families’ most talented sons both fell into the Crown Prince’s devilish claws. He truly didn’t know what sins they committed in their previous lives.

TN: Thanks for the support and comments! Keep them coming 😉

TN: Also, does anyone know who is the fellow leaving 1 star ratings on any BL novel on NU? Cause they are damn fast about it. Barely 24 hours passed since the first chapter and already there is a 1 star =.=

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